Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system?

2009-12-08 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
Dmitry Torokhov a écrit : On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:54:39PM +0100, Emmanuel Fusté wrote: Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: In summary, While the current EVIO[G|S]KEYCODE works sub-optimally for scancodes up to 16 bytes (since a read loop for 2^16 is not that expensive), the current

Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system?

2009-12-07 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: In summary, While the current EVIO[G|S]KEYCODE works sub-optimally for scancodes up to 16 bytes (since a read loop for 2^16 is not that expensive), the current approach won't scale with bigger scancode spaces. So, it is needed expand it to work with bigger scancod

Re: [RFC v2] Another approach to IR

2009-12-03 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:33:56PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: > > We should not forget that simple IR's don't have any key to select the address, > so the produced codes there will never have KEY_TV/KEY_DVD, etc. Wait, wait, KE

Re: [RFC v2] Another approach to IR

2009-12-03 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
Em Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:50:04 -0500 Jon Smirl escreveu: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > wrote: > > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: > >> > >>> Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >>> > > > >> The interesting thing is that input.h defines KEY_TV, KEY_PC, KE

Re: [RFC v2] Another approach to IR

2009-12-03 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
Jon Smirl wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Trent Piepho wrote: >> ... >> Now I understand that if 2 remotes send completely identical signals we >> won't be able to separate them, but in cases when we can I think we >> should

Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure

2009-11-23 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
It is perhaps time to resurrect Jon Smirl's work about In-kernel IR remote control support ? See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122591465821297&w=2 and all discussions around it. Regards, Emmanuel. --- Laposte